The legal system recognizes the disruptive nature of a personal injury. For that reason, it has attempted to provide injured victims with a means for becoming “whole” again. As designed by legal experts, the awarding of damages should furnish victims with a means for...

When the member of a family dies, more than one person mourns his or her passing. If the deceased man or woman experienced a fatal injury, due to someone else’s negligence, multiple family members would welcome the filing of a wrongful death lawsuit. Yet only a...